From: bpmurray*STUFFER*@socrates.cgl.ucsf.EDU (Bernard P. Murray, PhD) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Developing for Linux Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:37:21 -0800 Organization: University of California, San Francisco Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <199812230908 DOT XAA17600 AT v1 DOT vision1 DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-daddy.ucsf.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article <199812230908 DOT XAA17600 AT v1 DOT vision1 DOT net>, Paul Masters wrote: > I was wondering can I use DJGPP to develop a program for Linux > using DJGPP for DOS? If so, do I need any extras? I downloaded > all the libraries, DJGPP 2.02, and RHIDE. Do I need anything else > if I am going to develop for Linux? Can I run the program for Linux > on DOS? Thank you for your help. > -Paul If you mean "will my gcc/perl/awk/bash etc. code, developed and tested using DJGPP compile and run with Linux?" then almost definitely (unless you are using DJGPP-specific code eg. to play with the hardware). I do this all the time and then drag the code to work to run on the SGI's here (and the Perl and awk code runs on the Mac!). There are a few "gotchas" eg. unix to DOS carriage returns but otherwise its easy to write very portable code (although I haven't written anything terribly complicated). If you want to write things for X you are probably out of luck - although there is a pseudo-X library for DJGPP available. If you are asking about using gcc as a cross-compiler to produce binaries for an i386 target by compiling with DJGPP I have no idea (I am only a humble pharmacologist). Nollaig shona daoibh!, Bernard -- Bernard P. Murray, PhD Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA